Based in San Francisco, Arcangeli Baroque Strings is an
ensemble dedicated to the performance of the concerto grosso repertoire on
original instruments.

Praised by Isaac Stern as making "a most convincing argument for the Baroque
violin", MICHAEL SAND has become one of the leading Baroque violinists in
America. A founding member and first musical director of the Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco, Mr. Sand is also the director of Arcangeli
Baroque Strings, a string ensemble dedicated to the concerto grosso repertoire.
In great demand as a guest musical director and lecturer, he has led
performances of numerous chamber orchestras throughout this country and abroad,
including Israel, Canada, and Australia. He plays with the chamber ensembles
Musical Assembly, is director of the New York State Baroque and appears with
many local Bay Area early music groups. Mr. Sand has recorded for Meridian,
Harmonia Mundi (France and the United States), Arts and Music, KATastroPHE,
Wildboar, and Titanic. He teaches at the University of California at Davis and
at the SFEMS Baroque Music Workshop.

John Dornenburg teaches viola da gamba on the faculty at Stanford University and
lectures at California State University at Sacramento. In the San Francisco Bay
Area he can be heard with Music's Re-creation, Sex Chordae Consort of Viols,
Arcangeli Baroque Strings, Magnificat, and the American Bach Soloists